Spies of Mississippi

“Spies of Mississippi” reveals in shocking detail the state of Mississippi’s effort to undermine the Civil Rights Movement using a vast network of spies. Whites and Blacks spied for Old Dixie. An arm of the state government called the Sovereignty Commission would stop at nothing, even murder, to retain the “Mississippi way of life.” The film directly links the infamous triple murder of three civil rights workers in 1964 — Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney — to work of the Sovereignty Commission.

Director: Dawn Porter